Genocidal graffiti threatening Brahmin and Baniya Hindu communities with a blood bath has appeared Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The chilling slogans were found on the walls in the School of International Studies-II building on the university campus in the nation’s capital, and some accounts mention slogans were also seen in School of Languages Literature and Cultural Studies 2.
Slogans include– “Brahmins leave the campus”, “There will be blood”, “Brahmin Bharat Chhodo (Brahmins leave Bharat)” and “Brahmino-Baniyas, we are coming for you…We will avenge”. Apart from these, a common message “Go back to Shakha” (referring to RSS shakhas) was scrawled all over the doors of 3 faculty members – Nalin Kumar Mohapatra, Raj Yadav, Pravesh Kumar, and Vandana Mishra.
As per journalist Shubham Sharma, a ‘Jai Bhim’ slogan was also scrawled on the walls, hinting at the possible involvement of neo-Ambedkarite/radical Dalitists in the dastardly act.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has called this incident an example of Left barbarism. In their statement, they said, “ABVP condemns the rampant vandalization of academic spaces by communist goons. The communists have written abuses on walls of JNU in School of International Studies- II building. They have defaced chambers of free thinking professors in order to intimidate them. The communists have once again targeted the same female faculty whom they had held hostage for more than 3 days on 8th Nov 2019.”
